4 results match your criteria: "Maryland (Ms Niles); and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine[Affiliation]"

Changing Policy Landscape: How a Hospital-Based Opioid Treatment Program Adapted Care for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Qual Manag Health Care

January 2022

National Committee for Quality Assurance, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Ms Niles); and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (Dr Stoller).

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Importance: Nearly all initiatives to improve care for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) have focused on improving OUD identification and treatment. Whether individuals with OUD have lower quality of care than individuals without OUD remains unclear.

Objective: To measure quality of non-OUD preventive and chronic illness care and care coordination for individuals with OUD compared with individuals without OUD.

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Unmet Needs Among Out of Care and Recently Diagnosed Women of Color With HIV: Opportunities for Focused Interventions.

J Public Health Manag Pract

February 2022

University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts (Dr Rajabiun); Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Childs and Ms Fortu); Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (Dr Spencer); Grady Health System-Ponce de Leon Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Ms Niles-Carnes); AIDS Care Group, Chester, Pennsylvania (Ms Wahome); AIDS United, Washington, District of Columbia (Ms Downes); and Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, Maryland (Dr Heath).

Objective: Women of color (WoC) have lower retention in care and higher HIV/AIDS-related morbidity, compared with other populations. Barriers to care include lack of family support, inadequate HIV/AIDS services, and stigma, and women may face greater unmet needs for services including housing and employment. This descriptive study explores the unmet needs of WoC participating in the Health Resources and Services Administration's Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Program, Dissemination of Evidence Informed Interventions (HRSA/SPNS DEII) Initiative.

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Setting Our Sights on Infectious Diseases.

ACS Infect Dis

January 2020

Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery , University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH , United Kingdom.

Article Synopsis
  • In May 2019, an international conference organized by the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research at the University of Dundee focused on finding new medicines to treat infectious diseases, especially in Low and Middle Income Countries.
  • The conference highlighted the urgent need for new drugs and aimed to learn from various disease areas to improve drug discovery and development processes.
  • The discussions included topics from clinical development back to drug discovery pathways, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between preclinical and clinical phases.
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